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What is Cohesity?

Cohesity is a leader in AI-powered data security and management. Cohesity protects the world’s most critical data workloads across on-prem, cloud-native, and SaaS with backup and recovery, threat intelligence, cyber vaulting, files and objects, and recovery orchestration.

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Robust Solution For All BCDR Needs

10 out of 10
February 28, 2023
We use Cohesity DataProtect as our backup and disaster recovery solution for our multisite environment. We backup physical machines, …
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Cohesity DataProtect.

10 out of 10
May 18, 2022
We use Cohesity DataProtect to manage the backup environment. We have seen good data footprints after using Cohesity DataProtect. The ease …
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  • Platform support (55)
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  • Deduplication and file compression (54)
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What is Cohesity?

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Product Details

What is Cohesity?

Cohesity is a leader in AI-powered data security and management. Cohesity makes it easy to secure, protect, manage, and get value from data—across the data center, edge, and cloud. Cohesity helps organizations defend against cybersecurity threats with comprehensive data security and management capabilities, including immutable backup snapshots, AI-based threat detection, monitoring for malicious behavior, and rapid recovery at scale. Cohesity solutions can be delivered as a service, self-managed, or provided by a Cohesity-powered partner. Cohesity is headquartered in San Jose, CA and is trusted by the world’s largest enterprises, including six of the Fortune 10 and 42 of the Fortune 100.


Key Features

  • Increase data resilience: Simplify data management with a unified platform for data isolation and protection, backup and recovery, automated DR orchestration, and threat scanning.

  • Accelerate data recovery: Improve data recovery times and reduce business impact in the event of data loss due to an outage or ransomware attacks with air-gapped, immutable backups. Proven results include 98% reduction in recovery time.

  • Lower data costs: Consolidate data from across legacy systems, data centers, edge, and clouds, into a single platform that saves customers time and money. Real-world results include 50% or more lower data management costs, 30 hours of staff time saved weekly.

  • Best in class threat intelligence: Highly accurate ML/AI-driven data discovery and classification to identify sensitive data, assess the impact of an attack, and to understand sensitive risk across the organization.
  • Multi-cloud, API-driven solution: Integration with hundreds of business systems and key SaaS applications for turn-key data backup, protection, recovery, and security.

Cohesity Features

  • Supported: Single management platform
  • Supported: Enterprise Data Protection
  • Supported: Comprehensive database recovery
  • Supported: NAS instant access
  • Supported: Data immutability
  • Supported: Unlimited immutable snapshots
  • Supported: Instant mass restorer of VMs
  • Supported: Unlimited clones and zero cost clones
  • Supported: Rapid RTO/RPO
  • Supported: Backup as a service
  • Supported: Flexible deployment
  • Supported: Global Actionable Search
  • Supported: FIPS-compliant AES-256 encryption
  • Supported: Automated global indexing
  • Supported: Global deduplication and compression
  • Supported: Threat protection
  • Supported: Data classification
  • Supported: Data isolation and recovery
  • Supported: AI/ML-powered cybersecurity
  • Supported: Extensible APIs and 3rd party integrations
  • Supported: Erasure coding

Cohesity Screenshots

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Cohesity Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesNA, LATAM, EMEA, APJ
Supported LanguagesEnglish

Frequently Asked Questions

Cohesity is a leader in AI-powered data security and management. Cohesity protects the world’s most critical data workloads across on-prem, cloud-native, and SaaS with backup and recovery, threat intelligence, cyber vaulting, files and objects, and recovery orchestration.

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Reviewers rate Retention options highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of Cohesity are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).

Cohesity Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)0%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)60%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)40%
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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We mainly used this to protect data from an old Nas platform. We then we’re also able to present that data as a view through Cohesity. It was nice to be able to protect and present this data. We have also looked into protecting the rest of our environment because this is capable of doing so.
  • Easy GUI
  • Cheap
  • Next Gen design
  • Stability
  • Years of experience
  • Support
This is great to use in the way that we use it by protecting and providing Nas. This is also a good option for someone that needs to protect their whole environment but they don’t want multiple products and complexities. Lastly, this was a pretty good price and plays well with a lot of other products.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Cohesity has been a great addition to our organization as a backup solution. We have been using it for the last 5 years now, and it is being used for backing up AWS instances, on-prem servers, and NAS shares. Using Cohesity is fairly easy since all configurations can be done from the GUI. However, at the same time, it is still not fully mature, and every now and then, we do face issues where we have to work with the support and development team to resolve them.
  • Cohesity is very easy to use.
  • Cohesity is versatile, we can backup all type of environment.
  • Cohesity is very flexible, it can very easy deployed in any region.
  • The support quality can be improved.
  • The tool is still not mature, so we end up doing a lot of troubleshooting.
  • The turnaround time for resolving an issue should be improved.
Cohesity is an all-rounder as a tool for an organization's backup requirements. Due to its versatility, we use it for backing up our on-prem and AWS servers, and it works well. The price point is also on the lower side, so that is also a plus point. Configuring the backup of instances is fairly easy and straightforward. We have approx. 2000 instances are currently being backed up, and we don't face any challenges operating on a day-to-day basis.
Shawn Robertson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are currently using Cohesity for our on-prem backups, and backup as a service for all our M365/O365 applications. Our previous vendor was not able to complete all backups within a 24 hour time period, this caused items to miss backup schedules. A second appliance was added to try and help this issue, and it did for a brief period, then it was an issue again. Instead of adding a 3rd appliance we started shopping around for a new product.
  • Fast Backups
  • Really Fast Restores
  • Immutable File System
  • Currently have no issues with the product
  • If I had to come up with one item, I do have to restore VM's to physical hardware from time to time for deployment testing. I have to use a 3rd party product to deploy a backup to a bare-metal item. This would be a nice feature if it was native to Cohesity.
  • I wish I would have heard of Cohesity years ago and not about 3 years ago. I could have used them about 10 years ago.
Cohesity has been awesome. The performance (speed) that it has been able to provide has actually given me back time every month. I have to test my backups monthly, and the Cloning process that Cohesity has available from it's backup has given me days back each month. It just a few minutes I can have VMs restored for testing and documentation. This took a couple days with the previous vendor.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Cohesity Helios Backup to the Cloud and Office 365 Backup. We now have reliable offline backups and incremental immutable backups. It provides mission-critical backup and restore. O365 backup comes useful when it emails go "missing" - easy to operate interface helps us quickly recover what's needed. We never had to use any other services and we hope it will stay this way.
  • Easy setup
  • Great support
  • Easy management
  • Issue investigation
  • Error reporting
  • Log browsing
One of our system's database's become corrupt under the update. We have used Cohesity DataProtect to restore/download and mount the database to the server. The whole operation was very easy as you can download any files backed up to the cloud by download rather than full restore. The whole time taken to restore the database was much less than the other systems.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cohesity DataProtect has made the VM backup so easy as it doesn't need any proxies and works seamlessly using the APIs and it also provides a centralized Helios interface, which helps in managing multiple setups.
  • VM backup using the APIs
  • Application aware backup
  • Backup copy & replication
  • Helios management interface for centralized management
  • Add support for public cloud applications
  • O365 backup
It suits very well where you need to take the virtualized environment backup of any hypervisor like Nutanix, VMware, etc.
Joshua Van Camp | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cohesity DataProtect allowed my organization to modernize our backup system away from tapes and into a modern data management system. No longer have to deal with ordering and configuring new media, swapping tapes in and out to libraries, and or data safe. All of our VMware workloads along with our unstructured data are now backed up via Cohesity. We were also able to retire multiple legacy NAS devices and move the data all into one Cohesity cluster.
  • Easy to setup and begin backing up all data types
  • Provision new file storage
  • Active directory backups
  • Allow for seamless upgrades to the software
  • Unified reporting experience
  • The 3rd party apps could see more development
  • Some of the view sorts default to 100 results vs all
  • EOS/EOL on hardware hasn't always been the clearest
  • Sizing process during acquisition could be streamlined
Cohesity has solutions that scale across a wide variety of organizations and a strong ability to scale, but some smaller organizations might not be able to absorb Cohesity at its lowest entry-level price points. For an organization with one or two servers and a handful of users, this product would probably be overkill.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
The trial period was great; we were able to leverage the virtual edition to fully test features before bringing the actual hardware onsite for a POC. The solution has worked well and has outclassed our previous setup in both ease of use as well as efficiency and speed. One year in and we continue to be impressed by Cohesity. New features have been released and we have had great success with restores. We are now closing in on the end of our second full year utilizing our Cohesity cluster and it is performing as well as ever. I would recommend firing up a virtual instance of the cluster so that you can easily test out the complete functionality of the Cohesity ecosystem. They are adding applications that can be run directly on the cluster against your backups so that your production workloads are not negatively impacted. The product continues to perform beyond our initial expectations. User feedback is taken very seriously and I have personally seen improvements implemented that I specifically requested. The entire platform is being used to host other applications which can work with your backups, as well as a new software/cloud-only option which would be nice if you no longer want to host your own hardware. After more than 2 years I have to say the data deduplication and compression have really continued to shine. We have not needed to add additional capacity, something that was an annual occurrence with our old backup system.
  • Reliable backups
  • Live restores
  • Backups to cloud providers
  • Fast searching of backups
  • More visibility into cloud data allocations would be good
  • Reporting was a bit lacking at first but they have steadily improved this area
  • Cost is a bit high, but lower than competitors
In a highly virtualized environment, this solution really shines. I would think if you are still using bare metal servers it may not be the best fit for you, but there can't be many of those types of setups left. In our case, we back up 100 VMs and then send copies to a blob cloud storage provider for disaster recovery purposes. Cloud can also be used as an archive tier; we have not yet had to do this, as we have plenty of space on our cluster still. The dedupe and compression work really well.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Cohesity DataProtect as our backup and disaster recovery solution for our multisite environment. We backup physical machines, virtual machines, and all of our databases using it. Cohesity DataProtect allows us to store all of our data in multiple locations with cross site replication and archives the cloud and keeps all of the data safe with immutability and encryption. The UI and reporting makes it easy to report to provide easy to follow information to the higherups. We utilize Helios with Cohesity DataProtect, to have complete control over the appliances from a single pane of glass.
  • Efficient backups
  • Deduplication saves space and allows for more storage on the appliance
  • Recoveries are quick
  • No calendar based scheduling
  • Backing up of databases can be clunky
Cohesity DataProtect is a very robust solution that suits the needs of large companies. Protecting multiple locations is made simple and replication between multiple appliances makes recovery very easy in a worst case scenario. Smaller companies might find it to be overkill or out of the price range for what their needs are. The solution is top notch but is higher on the price scale.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We currently use Cohesity as our backup system and secondary storage for our organization. We use it across the organization for all data. It replaced our tape library system as well as phased out Veeam. We also use it to push a copy of our most recent backups to the cloud via AWS.
  • Easy to use and setup new backup and restore jobs.
  • Extremely fast recovery time, can spin a VMware backup VM up in well under a minute.
  • Granular recovery search options, easy to find specific files or systems to recover (or SQL DB).
  • Would be nice to have exchange message level recovery built right into the Cohesity interface.
Works great for replacing old backup technology with a modern, extremely fast and reliable hyperconverged platform. No more swapping tapes! Offsite storage to the cloud with easy recovery and ability to spin up in the cloud or restore back to the cohesity environment. Deduplication and compression technologies are integrated so you don't waste any space.
Jamie Orth | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cohesity replaced two legacy 'backup' platforms along with three different storage platforms during a merger of equals. SouthState Bank specifically protects over 1000 virtual servers (VMware) and 100+ MS SQL instances across multiple data centers. Cohesity allows policy-driven data protection that gives us the flexibility to protect test/dev data differently than our production and mission-critical data.
  • VMware protection, plain and simple.
  • Consolidation of native SQL backups to a centralized console based platform.
  • Clean and elegant UI that any engineer only needs a small level of knowledge to master.
  • Reporting could always be better- executive-style reports have to be generated from data at multiple points.
  • Some tasks that could be brought to the UI that today we have to call support on (for example when an NFS mount is still active but we cannot see it from the UI)
If you want to replace your legacy systems with a modern 'next generation' data protection platform, you cannot go wrong with Cohesity. Backing up VMware, HyperV, NAS, or multiple flavors of databases they have you covered in a simple but reliable solution. Add in automation and your test/dev environments can be kept up to date with real data.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Cohesity SmartFiles for file-sharing services. We have migrated most of our active file shares from our Windows file servers to the highly available Cohesity cluster using SmartFiles
  • File Shares
  • Data Protection
  • High Availability
  • Reporting
  • More polished UI
Cohesity SmartFiles provides file services and data protection on a highly available cluster. Rather than having to manage individual files servers, you have a cluster of file servers all centrally managed. The cluster is easily upgradable and scalable without any disruption in file services. And the data can be easily protected through snapshots, replication to other clusters and the cloud. Additionally features such as storage tiering to the cloud help with the scaling and storage costs as well.
Mark Anderson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Cohesity DataProtect as our data backup solution. This covers VMware VMs, SQL DBs, Windows servers, and Cisco switch configurations. Our previous backup solution was complicated to maintain and use. Cohesity DataProtect was significantly less expensive than the previous solution, along with being vastly easier to use, and came as an appliance solution.
  • Very simple an intuitive interface
  • Leverages VMWare VADP APIs so it integrates extremely well for VMware backups
  • Can be present and NAS storage for native SQL backups
  • Lack of MFA when using Active Directory-based user accounts.
  • Challenges with authentication with View from external AD domains.
  • Hot fix patches need to be installed via cli
Cohesity DataProtect is well suited for backing up Windows physical servers (Win2012-Win2022) and VMware workloads.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Cohesity DataProtect to manage the backup environment. We have seen good data footprints after using Cohesity DataProtect. The ease of use and the way to manage the data.
  • Backup
  • Recovery
  • Data Management
  • We can avoid third party Apps
  • Few bugs in UI
  • An object can protect in multiple in PGs
We use TSM before Cohesity DataProtect and we have observed many results in deduplication and the way we use the Cohesity DataProtect appliance is easy.
Nick Habets | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cohesity DataProtect has allowed us to integrate our backup solution into the same platform as our hypervisor compute platform. This allows us to gain efficiency in keeping it up to date as well as monitor it from a single pane of glass. We were able to upgrade the storage to an enterprise level product that has seen better performance and reliability than our previous solution. With the addition of the Cohesity Helios app we are able to keep a closer eye on backups anywhere we go.
  • Better visibility on hardware usage compared the popular alternatives.
  • Individual backup jobs have settings requiring less manual effort for new vm's.
  • Better dedup and compression visibility than previous product offered.
  • M365 integration
  • Native integration with our storage provider.
  • More API integration instead of installing agents on servers.
For those organizations with lots of data on-prem this is an awesome solution. For those that have a larger hybrid environment it isn't as convenient to deploy a new cluster into every cloud provider and still get offsite copies replicated and kept track of for DR purposes.
Heine Kaas | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cohesity DataProtect has proven to be very stable, fast, and secure. It helped us to move away from big tape loaders, to a more scaleable setup. Restoring when needed is easy.
  • vmware snapshot backup
  • Client based backup
  • Manual patching and not from GUI.
Unless you have the option to move your backup to another location/cluster, then this kind of backup might not be for you. Ex. if you are used to taking home daily backup tapes, then you need to replicate the backup data to another location.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We onboarded with Cohesity to replace an existing backup solution that we felt were no longer innovative while price for renewal kept increasing year by year. Cohesity was both competitive and showed innovation that was regarded as a leader in its field while providing much for solutions than just simple backup allowing us to converge not just the infrastructure but also different solutions into one.
  • Snapshot Backups
  • Disaster Recovery
  • Cloud backup
  • Canned Reporting
  • Support
  • Meaningful error messages
Cohesity checks all the boxes when it comes to backups to an on-prem appliance as well as offloading to the cloud as an offsite backup. If you are after some meaningful analytics around backups for reporting when some additional work will be needed as the built-in reporting does not seem too intuitive or useful for those who want more than just an understanding of whether the backup succeeded or failed - we need to understand which, files, directories, partitions or VMs and the cause.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We are using Cohesity Data Platform mainly as a backup and restore and disaster recovery system for our clustered VMWare virtual environment. But also as a Platform for archives and other file services. The use case was clearly to replace an old Data Management, Backup, and Disaster Recovery platform. With Cohesity Data Platform, we have a great toolset for managing our fast-growing Data with one single User-interface
  • Fast and seamles Backups
  • Using existing interfaces like VMWare API
  • Restore of a complete VM can be done in really only a few minutes
  • SQL has still some bugs
  • Enineering needs sometime to long to react on bugs with business impact
  • Depending on support department, the quality is changing
Well, as given by the Name, Cohesity is great for Data Management including Backup, Restore, and of course disaster recovery. Also, Archive Services with different protocols are easy to use. There are many other features on the list and this list is growing from day to day, but we are not using them (yet).
John Predmore | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Cohesity DataProtect to back up all of our physical and virtual servers as well as desktops. The primary problems Cohesity addressed for us were that we wanted our backup data to be on separate disks than production (this was not the case before) and we wanted faster restore times for virtual machines. We have a Cohesity cluster in each of our data centers and use the replication feature so our backup data has redundant copies.
  • Fast VM restores
  • Good dedupe/compression
  • Easy replication
  • Good Dashboards
  • Hotfixes complicated to install
  • Upgrades don't always populate into GUI
I believe that a highly virtualized (my exposure is only VMware) environment is a great fit for Cohesity DataProtect. But it also works very well backing up our physical servers. We are also backing up MS Active Directory, MS SharePoint, MS SQL, and MS Exchange. Cohesity has app-specific solutions for all of these giving granular restore options and we have leveraged all of them in production.
Michael Graff | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Cohesity to perform regular backups of all our on-premises workloads. These workloads consist of both physical machines as well as virtual instances running in a VMware environment. We perform daily backups and keep those backups for up to one year depending on the backup type. In addition, we leverage the ability of the platform to store archives of our backups in the cloud leveraging native cloud services.
  • Ease of use - the platform is simple to manage and does not require a lot of daily care and feeding by my administrators
  • Reliable - the platform is able to protect my workloads reliably without a lot of backup failures
  • Great support - the Cohesity team has been a partner to us throughout our use of the solution, taking our feedback and implementing it as improvements to the platform.
  • Innovative - the Cohesity team is consistently working to improve the product and add new capabilities.
  • The abilities of the SaaS-based solution - Data Management as a Service still have some room for improvement, especially in the area of backing up cloud-based workloads.
  • Releases can sometimes have bugs - always good to wait on rolling out new releases until the kinks have been worked out.
  • Delivery of fixes for known issues sometimes takes longer than I would like
The sweet spot of this product is protecting virtualized on-premise workloads running under VMware. For this use case, the product is highly recommended. Backing up of cloud-based workloads is still something that needs additional development for the solution to be competitive with other products.
Martin Völker | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Cohesity to protect physical MS Cluster, Windows Server, Databases like MSSQL, SAP HANA, Linux Hosts, Oracle Databases LPARS on Power Hardware, and Virtual Hyper V Machines. For the moment at two different location where we replicate the data between. We also use it to deliver some Fileservices like nfs an smb It is because we need an alternative to Spectrum Protect.
  • Support is the best i ever see
  • Backup ov VM´s
  • Indexing and search for Data in the Backup Data
  • DB2
  • Nutanix AHV integration
  • M365
Searching in the indexed Backup Data. For example, if you don´t know where the File is located that you want to restore you can easily search for it. Restore of VM´s is very fast. Even if you are restoring the first snapshot or the thousand snapshot that you made. Deduplication and Compression of data are very efficient.
January 31, 2022

Cohesity - It just works

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Cohesity across 7 locations to backup and replicate our data. Cohesity allows us to have several copies of our data in different data centers.
  • We use replication heavily to get data from one site to another, letting us get data out of areas that are more subject to natural disasters.
  • The user interface for Cohesity is simple and easy to use; folks that don't use it often have no problem picking it up quickly.
  • We attempted to use the archive feature to copy data to AWS, but this hasn't really worked out well for us.
  • I wish they would run a mailing list that informed of new versions or problems that others are seeing with the product.
Cohesity works well if you're attempting to consolidate your data center or if you're trying to get the most out of your investment because of their focus on hyper-convergence.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cohesity is used by our internal IT department for backup and restore. It has been used mostly for backups using ESXi. MSSQL and Exchange will also be backed up with Cohesity. You can create BackUp groups and link them to vCenter Folders. As soon as you create a VM in this folder it will be automatically backup. Also SQL Backup is easy to set up and once you know how the restore is also easy.
  • SQL backup.
  • ESXi backup.
  • Very fast restore.
  • File search.
  • File Protection
  • File Restore
  • Little issue that can't be solved yet.
  • Some problems with SQL restore.
  • Sometimes a little bugs in the GUI.
You can restore VMs very fast so your business is online in less than one hour. It's also possible to search your backup files and restore only that file that you need within seconds. I think Cohesity can be used in most of the business. You are able to back up a lot of products.
December 31, 2021

Helios to the rescue!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Helios for the Ransomeware detection. Since we have enabled it, we had one time that it did detect, but after investigation, we found that it was an update to an app and deleted a bunch of temp files as a part of the update. We also use it for the marketplace. Great to have ClamAV in the marketplace.
  • Ransomware detection with machine learning.
  • Easy to install apps.
  • Great to see all alerts from all clusters in one place.
  • Has the option to use MFA.
  • Better written documentation on how Helios integrates with the clusters.
  • Have the Helios documentation available inside of Helios instead of the document site.
A feature of Cohesity Helios that I do not hear much about is the Security Advisor. This is a great place to see what may be done to secure your environment better. It has recommendations that a lot of admins would not typically use unless purposely pointed out and that is what the Security Advisor does. It makes it easy to secure your clusters and it detects if a setting was made on one cluster but not the other cluster. A great feature when dealing with a company's hope to survive a ransomware attack and their crucial data.
Emma Summers | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We currently only have a single on-perm cluster but use Helios to access certain features like the anti-ransomware, security advisor and Helios reports. We only use Helios within the IT department but being a SaaS service it aligns with our Cloud first vision and means we can access and manage Cohesity from anywhere.
  • Single point of management
  • Anti-ransomware reports
  • Now supports MFA
  • Reports have limited customisation
  • We’ve had some issues with Cloud Archive but Cohesity support have been exceptional in working to get this resolved
Cohesity is very well suited to protecting virtualised workloads and is a significant improvement over IBM Spectrum Protect which we’ve replaced by Cohesity. We also protect a Netapp workload and whilst the on-prem side works really well careful planning of protection jobs is needed if you’ll be archiving these to Cloud.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cohesity allowed us to backup data more effectively and restore the data fast. We have less issues in Hyper-v and Vmware compared to other products. Also the addition of Helios and marketplace add new options that other products can not provide.
  • Helios added additional report and management of two or more clusters.
  • The schedule reports is handy to have and setup to ensure backups are running without erros.
  • We had issues with Hyper-v. But that was windows issue not really cohesity issue.
[Cohesity] works great with VMWare. You can created protected folders in VMWare and allow then to sync over to Cohesity, Any server in that folder will automatically be backed up.
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